Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...edition of "The Greenwich Village Follies." Chich York and Rose King are its co-stars. They are ably assisted by Coley Worth, comedian; Edith Drake, prima donna; Ayres and Rene, with Rasche, adaglo dancers; True Yorke, daughter of the headliners; Ernest Charles, stage, screen and radio tenor; the Greenwich Village male octette, and Ruby Norton, musical comedy and vandeville favorite. The Three California Redheads, feminine dancing beauties, are an added feature attraction. The ensemble is made up of thirty Greenwich Village beauties...
...Those are, of course, the high spots. But the steady listener cannot have failed to appreciate the general improvement of the average program. Whether it is because the technical developments in both transmitting and receiving apparatus tend to encourage the public ear to expect better things, or because the tenor of the age is not in tune with staccato rhythms and the grosser tin-pan melodies is a matter for speculation. Certainly the technique of arranging musical instruments before a microphone has increased the illusion of reality almost as much as the widened tonal range of most of the modern...
...Praise Famous Men" which will be followed by "Shoot, False Love" and "Miserere Allegri." Two choruses from the "Music for Freemasons" by Mozart have been selected which are the choruses from the Cantata "Dir, Seele, des Welfalls" and the Cantata "Die Maurerfroude." Mr. Joseph Lautner will give a tenor solo and the Glee Club will complete the program with two folk songs, "Bonnie Dundee" and "Crudele Irene" and the choruses from the "Gondolters...
...time and Wrestling was impatient. Pretty Marigold Sandys (Goeta Ljungberg) came to Quincy with the giddy Cavaliers. They were bent on building a Maypole, dancing on the Holy Sabbath, an offense not half so shocking to Wrestling Bradford as the fact that Marigold intended to marry Sir Gower Lackland (Tenor Edward Johnson). The wedding was half over when Wrestling strode grimly in, leading his Puritan fanatics. Sir Gower was killed, Marigold arrested. Wrestling fell asleep in the forest to dream of the fiery netherworld, of dancers with slippery hips, of Marigold for whom he signs the devil's book...
...Tenor Paul Althouse, a Pennsylvanian like Thomas, looked better in a bearskin than Tenor Lauritz Melchior who usually sings Siegmund. And he sang the taxing music every bit as well. Twelve years ago critics used to find fault with Althouse's bleating but now, at 44, his voice is perfectly controlled, rich with color. Thoroughly exciting was the scene where he pulls Wotan's sword out of the ash tree. He jumped up on the table, grasped the hilt firmly, steadied himself and gave a mighty jerk that was felt throughout the audience...